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Author Topic: Me, and my photo! (and my camera) Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 01-25-2003 04:50 AM                     Yes, this ugly looking specimen is me; and this is the best picture I could find! It was scanned from a Polaroid print, taken with my 1949 Speed Graphic, on the roof of the college where I work. Just bejind the photographer is a door leading to a loft where we store old equipment, and I store some of my film; that is why I am holding a can which I have just retreived from the 'vault'. This was a musical short, on its way to an archive. I've never had much success with Polaroid film, but I do have some quite good shots taken with the Speed Graphic on conventional material. Are there any other members who collect classic cameras? A few years ago a picture I took with it did get used in a local newspaper in London; possibly the last use of a Speed Graphic as a genuine press camera? I would like to record my thanks to Brad for hosting this site, and the forums, and to the other members for the valuable advice they have given me. I have now met six other members, four here, and two in the States, so my regards to Bernard, Peter, Leo, Darren, Bob and Bernie, and I hope to meet some more of you sometime. I'm not working today, so I'm about to go to the NFT to book my ticket for the restored 'Metropolis'. Surprisingly, I've never actually seen the film, only clips on television.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 01-25-2003 12:34 PM                        quote: Yes, this ugly looking specimen is me; and this is the best picture I could find! Hey, don`t worry, for an Englishman you are actually looking OK!  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 01-25-2003 02:29 PM                     Thanks Michael! How is Germany today? It's a long time since I was there, I had a couple of days in München at the time they were building the Olympic stadum there. I think the Olympics were in 1972, weren't they, so it was probably 1971 when I was there. A lot has changed since then. I remember them filling me up with large quantities of Löwenbräu. In 1974 I went to Russia, in the middle of Winter, and there they kept filling me up with Vodka. When at home, I don't drink alcohol. I had problems getting a new passport, and, for many years, I didn't go anywhere, and thought I would probably not travel abroad again, but last year I made two trips to the New York/New Jersey area. Berlin looks like an interesting place; maybe I will get there some day.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 01-25-2003 09:02 PM                    Mein Gott. So close and you haven't been in so long?  |  IP: Logged Chris Markiewicz Expert Film Handler Posts: 209 From: Glenaviegh, County Tipperary, Ireland Registered: Aug 2002 posted 01-25-2003 09:24 PM                     The closest I have to classic cameras are two Kodak Retina 35s from the 50s; a Ib and a IIc, both with Schneider Kreuznach lenses. They take beautiful pictures. Also a Praktica SLR, which is built (and sounds) like a tank. The shutter firing scares people.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 01-25-2003 09:47 PM                        History repeats itself --- the new Kodak EasyShare LS443 4-megapixel digital camera also uses a Schneider-Kreuznach lens: http://www.kodak.com/global/en/digital/easyShare/ls443/ls443.jhtml  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 01-26-2003 03:03 AM                     Chris wrote: quote: The closest I have to classic cameras are two Kodak Retina 35s from the 50s; a Ib and a IIc, both with Schneider Kreuznach lenses. They take beautiful pictures. Also a Praktica SLR, which is built (and sounds) like a tank. The shutter firing scares people. Chris, the Retinas were good cameras. Amateur Phtographer magazine over here did an article on them a year or so back. When I worked in schools we used to use Practicas, they were reasonably schoolgirl-proof. The main problem we had with them was that take-up system with the two wires which grabbed the end of the film. I could never see what was wrong with a slot in the take-up spool, like everyone else used. Keep it simple. My favourite SLRs were porbably the Pentax SP1000 and Spotmatic F, The Olympus OM-1 and the Nikon FM. These cameras seemed to me to be genuine improvmenta on what had gone before; since then they have become too complex, to gimmicky and too dependant on batteries from which they draw an ever greater load. Who needs a power driven film rewind, for example. What's wron with a knob? You should hear the 5x4 inch focal plane shutter on the Speed Graphic! John wrote: quote: the new Kodak EasyShare LS443 4-megapixel digital camera also uses a Schneider-Kreuznach lens So does my Speed Graphic, two Xenars and an Angulon. I think most of these cameras had Ektars, but the Schneider ones were also quite common. [ 01-26-2003, 05:24 AM: Message edited by: Stephen Furley ]  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 01-26-2003 08:53 AM                        quote: How is Germany today? Germany is completely messed up. There are lots of financial and social problems and nobody knows what to do or has the courage to bring changes about. The costs of the reunion have ruined the country. Berlin is broke with 30 billion Euro (1 Euro=roughly 1 Dollar) debts! The cinema business is also very bad now. We had (still have) a cinema going boom over the last few years but the big exhibitors have built too many multiplexes, often in close proximity to each other, and now most of them are broke. Great management! Everyone knew that it was going to be like this, but they still built all those cinemas because they all wanted to become market leaders.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-26-2003 12:12 PM                     Hi Stephen, We ought to start a cameras thread on this forum!! Something I've been involved in since I was seven years old! Photography has been alot of fun over the years for me, but I've gotten away from 35mm lately and have gone digital for my general stuff. I used to be a Camera Repair Tech for Canon and worked on all the cameras they made....AE-1, A-1, F-1,FTB and alot of the TV camera lenses they made.....that was back in the late 70's that I worked for them. I still have my F-1n and set of lenses, as well as the underwater housing for it. I still use it once in a while. For my outdoor and other type photography I use a 6X9 Galvin View Camera which is a hand made minature view camera that weighs only 2 lbs. I also have a Cambo 4X5 studio view camera that gets its fair share of usage. With a fine grain film like Fuji Velvia...which is my favorite color film, I get excellent results out of the Galvin......but with the 4X5 format grain is non-existant. All of my lenses (5) are Rodenstocks and interchangable between both cameras....I've gotten by far the best results with them. Have had Schneiders too, but have never gotten the same look I get with the Roadies. I rarely shoot B&W anymore as there is too much color out here to capture.... Mark @ CLACO www.clacoequipment.com  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-26-2003 12:46 PM                     I have an early Canon AE-1 and a Nikon F2a (25th Anniversary...quite rare)...both of the above with a collection of lenses and filters. In the darkroom...a Bessler 23CII with color head and regulated power supply. I did B&W or color...slides, negatives, and either to prints...thems was the days. Steve  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 01-26-2003 01:24 PM                     Michael wrote: quote: Germany is completely messed up. Sounds like England!  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-26-2003 03:15 PM                     Steve, Thems are still the days....enjoy them while you still can....I still do some Ilfochrome at home, but the lab that prints all of Tom Till's photos is near my house and by going to them I end up with a display quality print...not just an enlargement. So I end up there more than in my darkroom. Those not familiar with Toms work go here to see some of it... http://www.tomtill.com/online/shop.cgi/pages=index.html Even though I worked for Canon I still prefer Nikon glass over any of Canon's glass. I had an F2 till I dropped it off a 400 foot cliff near Moab, UT. Someday future scientists will unearth its fossil......The body was pretty beat, actally had begun to fosilize already, but still worked great, the thing I miss is the 24mm Nikkor that went down with it ! Mark  |  IP: Logged Darren Briggs Master Film Handler Posts: 371 From: York, UK Registered: Dec 2001 posted 01-26-2003 04:26 PM                        Stephen, Im sure I shal get to meet you soon, gona be bobbing to bradford to catch the Widescreen weekend in March if your going at all. But you should come to York as you can catch a 70mm show, as we screen them all year around. Leo will also be coming to Bradford to see whats on offer this year. Darren  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-26-2003 07:01 PM                     I generally preferred Ilford for B&W work. I used Kodak for color negatives and prints. Cibachrome for slide -> print. I could/can go up to 16 x 20". Steve  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-26-2003 08:57 PM                     I definately agree that Ilford has some really good B&W paper. Agfa stuff always looked nice too. Haven't had time for about a year to print any of my own stuff now..... Mark  |  IP: Logged

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